== George: Be Neijon.
== Neijon: Don't Turn Back.
I looked at my friend's dead bodies on the ground. Tears were flowing out of my eyes, blurring my vision. I just sat there crying for the longest time, not knowing what to do. But then I had an idea.
Maybe we still had a chance. I picked up Iza's dead body and carried her to her Quest Bed on her planet. I laid her down and prayed for it to work. If it worked for her...maybe our session WASN'T dead. I hoped it wasn't...anyway.
"Iza...please...come back." I said.
== Neijon: Let's be George again.
== George: Save the troll girl.
I saw the giant monsters and the small army of basilisks the troll girl was talking about. I drew out my scythe and looked at April.
"April...I'll get their attention. You and Troll Girl attack them from behind." I whispered. She nodded. I ran in front of the monsters and whistled loudly.
"HEY, YOU! FUCKASSES! OVER HERE!" I said. The three giclops and the basilisks marched over to me. The closest basilisk to me was sliced in half before he could breathe fire or poison or whatever it is they do at me. I dodge rolled one's attack and slashed at another.
Aikros pulled out a stuffed unicorn. Just fucking great. How was that going to help us fight these guys?
But then I noticed it. The unicorn's horn was...a katana...with CHAINSAW BLADES ON IT!? What the hell?
"Thanks!" She cried cheerily. She pulled the unicorn's tail and the chaintana came to life, hacking and slashing some basilisks into pieces. In half an hour we had all the monsters dead. We sat down on the ground and took a break.
"Where did you get that thing!?" April practically screamed at Aikros.
"I alchemized it myself. Watch this, it's cool." She said. Aikros hugged the plush unicorn and the Chainsawtana went away and was replaced with a normal unicorn horn.
"That's cool." I said. April was busy fangirling over the Chaintanacorn and Aikros was busy asking her about her life, what was going on, the usual stuff. So I just sat back and chilled for a little bit.
Truth was, their conversation was boring for me. I almost fell asleep.
"George?" Aikros said. I opened my eyes and sat back up.
"Huhr?" I asked.
"What fetch modus did you use?" Aikros asked.
"Magic Cue Ball." I replied. April blinked and looked confused. Aikros stared at me like I was insane.
"Why do you use that modus? It's bad fucking news. Fucking cursed." Aikros said simply.
"What...does the MCB fetch modus even do?" April asked. I sighed.
"All the captchalouged items are stored in Magic Cue Balls. If you shake them, it shows you the captcha code, but you can't see it because it has no viewport. In order to get the item out, you have to break the cue ball. But you never really know which item will come out of which ball, so it's pretty random. Speaking of random, if you break an empty ball, then it'll give you a random item.
It's actually pretty fun and easy to use, for me at least." I explained. April's jaw was on the floor.
"You...break...magic cue balls...CONSTANTLY?" she asked. I nodded.
"No wonder your session failed! Do you realize how much of a bad omen it is to break those things!? You're tempting fate, big time!" April said. I flinched. Gina had brought that same idea up with me before. That's kind of the reason we don't really talk to each other as much anymore.
"Abelin, another troll in our session, used the fetch modus sometimes. That's what really fucked things up and got him killed in the end." Aikros explained.
"Whatever." I said. I pulled my hood over my head and went to sleep.
== George: Be Sally.
== Sally: Enter Flashback Mode
"DAVIN, I'M GOING TO MOTHERFUCKING KILL YOU!" Clint cried out as he chased after Davin, shooting at him wildly. Davin ran out of the volcano, blocking bullets and dodging them as he went.
"Will both of you stop it!?" I yelled, chasing after them. I teleported stuff around, replacing my caltrops with Clint's pistols and Davin's katana with a tree branch. I teleported between them and clapped my hands loudly.
"Now will you stop it?" I asked nicely.
"No. Motherfucker stabbed me with his motherfucking katana." Clint said simply, glaring at Davin.
"But we're all fine now. And besides, this is a game we have to play together, not against each other. We need to go back up to my house where we'll meet with the others, ok?" I said.
"Fine by me." Davin said.
"Fine..." Clint said, still glaring daggers at Davin. I took my caltops back.
"What the fuck-" Clint began.
"From now on, I'M running things around here, because apparently no one can do anything right without my help. So I'm keeping weapons and everything else in this session under control."
I explained simply. Both of them looked pissed. I grinned.
"Now, let's get back to the house, shall we?" I asked. I didn't give them time to answer. I just teleported to the house.
== Sally: Be Gina.
== Gina: You're too good for Flashback Mode. Enter SHUT THE FUCK UP Mode instead.
"I hope he'll be alright." Zack said. I could tell who he was talking about. I sighed.
"It doesn't matter." I said.
"How can you say that? They're people, or aliens or whatever just like we are! We let them die so that we could win!" He said simply. I shrugged.
"There's nothing we could have done about it, so there's no use crying about it. Now shut the fuck up and let's get this fucking session over with." I finished.
"Maybe they would have had a better chance at winning anyway...how do we know this will work out?" he asked. I sighed.
"Everything isn't meant to be ok, Zack." I explained. Now he got angry.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN!?" he practically screamed.
"It means, EXACTLY what I said it meant, DAMMIT!" I yelled. I calmed down.
"Bad things happen for reasons. In paradox space, NOTHING is random. EVERYTHING has a reason, everything is justified...even if that reason or justification is so nonsensical that it shouldn't even count. But it does." I began.
"You need to stop being so immature. So what if we couldn't save some other race, some other people? We CAN save ours, and that's what we SHOULD be focusing on and obsessing over and whining about. Now SHUT THE FUCK UP and let's keep walking." I finished.
"But I still feel bad about it...even though I shouldn't. I still think we could have, maybe even should have, helped, instead of just being worried about ourselves." Zack explained.
"Your family always come first, Zack. You should know that by now. In fact, you're the one that taught me that, in a way. After Mom died, I mean." I explained. I shed a single tear from the memories.-3
"Oh." he said.
"That's all you have to say? 'Oh.'? THAT'S ALL YOU HAVE TO FUCKING SAY WHEN I PRACTICALLY POURED OUT MY FUCKING HEART TO YOU!?" I yelled at him. I turned and started walking away.
"No...Gina! Wait! I didn't mean it like that!" Zack called.
"FUCK YOU ASSHOLE! I HATE YOU AND EVERYTHING THAT YOU STAND FOR!" I replied. I broke into a run.
"I HOPE THAT HURT YOUR FUCKING FEELINGS, YOU BIG FUCKING PUSSY!" I said. I kept running, and I didn't look back. I didn't stop until I was a long way away from him and anyone else who might be around.
I sat on the ground and started crying. I couldn't control myself. And that freaked me out even more.
"Get...get a hold of yourself Gina...you got this. Just...calm down...ok...god...why...no, just shut up...and calm down...good." I said, thinking out loud.
"You ok?" someone asked. I looked up. George was standing there, holding his scythe. He sat down by me.
"What do you want?" I asked.
"I was out walking while April and Aikros were doing their girly-talk thing and I just happened to see you running, and I thought something bad happened. Are you ok?" He asked me.
"No." I replied. He shrugged.
"I was trying to sleep, but had a nightmare. THE nightmare." he explained. I flinched at the memory.
"I don't know why we all keep remembering when that happened...it was just a stupid mistake we made...a stupid mistake I made that almost got us all killed." I said.
"Want to-" George began.
"No George, I don't want to enter Flashback Mode and tell everyone else in this fucking session about it. I'm too good for that. So I'm in SHUT THE FUCK UP Mode instead. So SHUT THE FUCK UP." I interrupted.
He sighed. I stood up.
"You got to admit though, me slaying that Lich Queen WAS awesome and I ended up saving all our asses." George said.
"No it wasn't." I said. His jaw dropped.
"But did you SEE how I did the fucking doomy thing? DID YOU SEE THAT? Or were you blinded by how awesome it was?" George asked. I facepalmed.
"Well, I don't know...using the Doomy Thing on my planet, which may I remind you was the Land of Monsters and Explosions, was NOT A GOOD IDEA. YOU ALMOST BLEW UP MY WHOLE FUCKING LAND." I explained.
"Yeah, but if I hadn't, we'd have all been dead." He explained. I laughed.
"Bullshit. Alex would have done just fine teleporting us out of there with his spacey shit." I explained.
"Well, I don't know, trying to start the scratch on a session that was never meant to be scratched, summoning all of the game's toughest monsters at once... gee, that wasn't such a good idea, now was it,
Gina?" George retorted. Fuck that guy. I hate it when he's right. He stood up and walked right over to where I was and got all up in my face. I hate when people do that.-4
"WELL AT LEAST I DIDN'T RUN AROUND BREAKING MAGIC CUE BALLS!" I screeched at him.
"I'm telling you, Josie and your stupid decisions are what made our session fail, NOT my fucking cue balls." George replied. I was fuming with anger.
"WELL MAYBE IT WAS ALL OF OUR STUPID DECISIONS, O-FUCKING-KAY? MAYBE YOUR CUE BALL SHIT DIDN'T DESTROY OUR SESSION, BUT IT DIDN'T FUCKING HELP EITHER! YOU ALWAYS SCREW EVERYTHING UP GEORGE, EVERYTHING!
WHY DID I EVEN SAVE YOUR ASS WHEN I SHOULD HAVE JUST LEFT YOU TO DIE ANYWAY!?" I screamed at him. He took a minute to recover from the low blow.
"Gina, that is LOW, even for you. I can't believe you would say that, after all we've been through together...that you would even think that." George said.
"I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. I died, and Alex carried me to my Quest Bed and I ascended. End of story." I said. He looked shocked.
"No, that was ME. I made a deal with my Denizen. If he'd tell me where your Quest Bed was so we could revive you...then I'd kill myself. And that's what I did." He said simply. I stared at him.
"Great, now you're making shit up because YOU are JEALOUS of me and Alex because we started dating after that. And besides, if you killed yourself, you wouldn't have been able to ascend." I explained.
He rolled his eyes at me. I hated when he did that.
"Kyle intervened. I knew where my Quest Bed was." George explained.
"I don't fucking care. When we were getting ready to leave the session, when Josie was on her rampage and just before I got killed by that damn Archeron army, I should have left you behind because YOU were slowing us down with your damn leg that you broke fighting that damn spider thing!" I said. He looked hurt. I calmed down a little.
"I...I'm sorry George...it's just..." I tried to aplogize.
"I know." He interrupted.
"We've been through a lot, I get that. We didn't have the best childhoods on what was left of Earth...and this shitty game killed everyone we cared about and killed all of us at least twice...it turned some of us into monsters...things that we never wanted to see, much less become. It wasn't beautiful or tragic or poetic or cool or whatever the fuck you want to call it. It's just sad...and I just want all of this to be over...so we can stop surviving...and start LIVING. You see what I mean...?" He asked.
"Yeah." I said. I gave him a reassuring hug. He smiled and hugged me back.
"George what the fuck-Oh, hey Gina...um...I'm confused...uh...did I come in at the wrong time?" April said. She had just arrived on the scene with Aikros.
I pushed George away.
"No, you didn't." I said. George looked crushed. Poor guy.
== Gina: Be the other girl.
== Evie: NOT YOU FUCKASS. THE OTHER OTHER GIRL!
== Leslie: Yes. This other other other girl, fucking finally.
== Leslie: End the fucking chapter.
